Well how would I know? Well apart from Tim Bonner’s oft-mentioned dislike of the European legislation, such as the Habitats Directive (drafted by arch-lefty Stanley Johnson, remember)(see here and here) and maybe from keeping an eye on what they do… Here are three examples from two shooters, both of whom spoke in the 2016 Westminster…
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Johnson flies off again
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From yesterday’s PMQs – I fail to detect the Prime Minister wanting a greener more sustainable future in these words;
BTO press release – Europe’s breeding birds get long-overdue stocktake
Europe’s breeding birds get long-overdue stocktake New European Breeding Bird Atlas, a milestone for biodiversity research and nature conservation in Europe, is published today. Highlights The European Bird Census Council (EBCC) publishes the second European Breeding Bird Atlas EBBA2, a milestone for biodiversity knowledge in Europe A tremendous collaborative effort by the EBCC and its partner…
RSPB press release – marine SPAs in Scotland
RSPB Scotland welcomes seabird safe havens, but questions why Orkney sites are missing Puffins, terns, eiders and long-tailed ducks are among the wildlife that stands to get a boost from legal protection announced today. The long-awaited declaration of ‘Special Protection Areas’ (SPAs) will safeguard some of the places that hundreds of thousands of birds rely…
Bird/poultry flu in proper wild birds in Northumberland
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Lindisfarne is a fantastic place: it’s beautiful scenically and stuffed full of birds, particularly in winter. One of the ‘star’ birds (all birds are stars, even Linnets) is the Light-bellied (or Pale-bellied) Brent Goose which visits the area around Lindisfarne in winter after travelling from its breeding grounds in the high Arctic in Svalbard (Spitzbergen),…
Your views on book reviews here
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I asked you a variety of questions about the book reviews on this blog and these were your responses. From the results below I take it that you generally like the reviews, find them useful and they steer your purchasing decisions a bit – at least a bit. Q1: My blog, Standing up for Nature,…
100+ authors support extended right to roam
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Closing this evening – this survey about book reviews here
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Many thanks to over 200 of you who have taken a minute (that is all it takes) to tell me what you think of book reviews that are published here. As with almost all polls/surveys here. The first 10 responses pretty much tell me what the overall message will be. So I’ll close this poll…
Guest blog – How nature dies by Alistair Gammell
Alistair Gammell worked for RSPB for 40 years and was closely involved in the drafting of the Birds and Habitats Directives and for growing RSPB’s international work. He was RSPB’s first International Director and retired from RSPB in 2009. He then worked to successfully establish large scale fully protected marine reserves in the seas around…
Farming is changing – but we can’t really tell you how.
Nobody really has a clue what’s happening to farming over the next few years, and that obviously includes DEFRA. This document, according to ministers, represents the most fundamental shift in farming policy for over 50 years (but the details are so unclear it would be difficult to write them on the side of a barn,…